Some of the biggest names in private banking – &nbsp;UBS, Credit Suisse and Julius Baer – are bullish about wealth creation in the region’s largest economy, which has increasingly been opening up to the global economy; allowing foreign investment and selling off stakes in state assets such as Aramco, the world’s biggest oil producer....

Consider the Mideast and Israel... embassy to Jerusalem? He replied that Trump could learn, especially “in the Mideast, what you say really matters… so Trump has to rethink what he said.” Of course the opposite is true ... In the Mideast the affairs of state and family wealth are intertwined....

Most of that wealth was secretly channelled to anonymous entities based in Panama and the British Virgin Islands that were linked to world renowned billionaire George Soros... However, unbeknown to many, Soros secretly channelled ill-gotten wealth from companies linked to HSBC into the SC-SCF and the SCF....

NIMRUD, Iraq (AP) — The giant winged bulls that once stood sentry at the nearly 3,000-year-old palace at Nimrud have been hacked to pieces ... "My family and neighbors came to my house to pay condolences." ... It was a brutal blow to a site that gave the world a wealth of startling Mesopotamian art and deepened knowledge about the ancient Mideast ... ___ ... ___....

“When I heard about Nimrud, my heart wept before my eyes did,” said Hiba Hazim Hamad, an archaeology professor in Mosul who often took her students there ... Still, Salih does not despair ... During a Dec ... It was a brutal blow to a site that gave the world a wealth of startling Mesopotamian art and deepened knowledge about the ancient Mideast ... ....

The regime that rules from Moscow has a great deal of wealth in absolute terms ... In Russia, the Central Federal District and a few far-flung oil-producing regions produce the country’s wealth. In the US, wealth is more spread out ... The Mideast and the Far West are not far behind....